Alma White bent gingerly over the sweet corn and secured its fencing. She's also tended to a crop of sweet peas in a raised bed at the Stewart House Urban Farm & Gardens at 15th Avenue and Massachusetts Street in Gary.

Ryan Brown, the Hammond teen who courageously continued his schooling despite the rigors of two heart transplants, died Wednesday at Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond, a hospital spokesman confirmed.

A Merrillville councilman said the town won't be issuing any permits to CVS Pharmacy for its proposed new store at U.S. 30 and Broadway until it makes necessary repairs to its fire-damaged store on the north end of town.

The Merrillville Town Council has approved an ordinance establishing a vacant and abandoned building registration and maintenance program, a move that Council President Tom Goralczyk said was "long overdue."

Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell sentenced a Hammond man to 25 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter in the 2012 stabbing death of his father.

The search for a missing mentally challenged Gary woman and her 2-year-old nephew continued Wednesday with help from the Porter County sheriff and volunteers who walked through overgrown vacant lots and abandoned buildings in Gary's Brunswick neighborhood.

Hobart Mayor Brian Snedecor and police officials Wednesday led an adviser to Gov. Mike Pence on a tour of the city's police/court/community center, which Snedecor called an example of how communities can rejuvenate an old building into a multi-use center.

Whether or not cutting the power to the Chief Keef portion of Saturday's Craze Fest was a direct violation of anyone's First Amendment rights hinges solely on the contract Hammond and the promoter signed, legal experts say.

Timber pulled at his lead, tail wagging, eager for a walk outside his kennel at the Lake County Sheriff's Department Animal Adoption and Control Center, and nothing could make his handlers more pleased.

A 13-year-old girl with a blood alcohol content of .196, more than double the legal limit for an adult, was charged with underage drinking after her younger brother called their father to tell him she'd been drinking, police said.

The Porter County Property Tax Board of Appeals entered the space-time continuum Tuesday and the Greater Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce came out with an answer in its quest to keep its personal and real property exemption.

Becknell Industries has begun work on a new 160,000-square-foot speculative warehouse/distribution building in its Hobart business park, helping to fill a void in Northwest Indiana's business landscape.

A member of the Hammond City Council agrees with the way the city handled Chief Keef's hologram appearance at an all-day concert Saturday, although he'd rather it have been a situation of understanding rather than cutting off communication.

The Boy Scouts of America, which approved a new policy Monday to allow its chartered organizations to select leaders without regard to sexual orientation, still leaves the decision in the hands of local groups and their beliefs.

Portage police arrested a Chicago woman Friday after she allegedly tried to use a fraudulent gift card at a local drug store and later jumped out of the back of an ambulance on U.S. 6 in front of Portage High School.

Craze Fest promoters can be upset with the city of Hammond all they want, but Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said they had the right to pull the plug on rapper Chief Keef's hologram performance Saturday night.

Charges of aggravated battery, neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery on a person younger than 14 have been filed against a Hobart man involving an 8-week-old infant who suffered a broken femur and broken rib.

A failure to resolve drainage issues on the recently completed 133rd Avenue reconstruction project on the west side of town prompted Cedar Lake officials to take the rare step of firing the project engineer.

On a very hot and steamy afternoon Friday, the Shedd Aquarium teamed up with biological technicians from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Chicago teenagers to continue efforts to return Cowles Bog to its natural state.

United Steelworkers said Friday it has received more proposals from ArcelorMittal seeking additional concessions from its workers as the two sides continued to meet to hammer out a new three-year contract.

Developers of Gary's South Shore Technology Center, based at the historic Gary State Bank building have nearly completed the first phase of development, and now they're scouting for tenants so they can start the next phase.

Authorities said a truck driver from Lake Zurich apparently started a chain-reaction crash that killed five people, including two children, when he slammed into the back of another vehicle in a construction zone in western Indiana.

Valparaiso Community Schools Superintendent Ric Frataccia presented his agenda Thursday of all things new that ran the gamut from the swearing-in of new school board member Jennifer Bognar to new teacher evaluation procedures to building project updates.

If Cook County businesses are worried about losing shoppers to Northwest Indiana when their sales tax bumps up 1 percentage point on Jan. 1, Indiana business leaders want them to know it's already happened.